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Home›Jobs›Microsoft›Principal Software Engineer, Backend
Microsoft

About Microsoft

Empowering every person and organization on the planet

🏢 Tech👥 100K+📅 Founded 1975📍 Redmond, Washington, United States

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  • Market cap exceeds $2 trillion
  • 100,000+ employees worldwide
  • Leading cloud services through Azure
  • Major clients include Walmart and BMW

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Microsoft

Principal Software Engineer, Backend

Microsoft • United States, Washington, Redmond

Posted 2d ago🏛️ On-SitePrincipalBackend engineer📍 Redmond
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Skills & Technologies

C#.NET CoreAzure

✨ AI Summary

Microsoft is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to lead innovations in data protection for AI applications. You'll build high-performance and reliable systems using C#, .NET Core, and Azure. This role is based in Redmond and focuses on enhancing security solutions for customers.

Job Description

Overview

Security represents the most critical priorities for our customers in a world awash in digital threats, regulatory scrutiny, and estate complexity. Microsoft Security aspires to make the world a safer place for all. We want to reshape security and empower every user, customer, and developer with a security cloud that protects them with end to end, simplified solutions. The Microsoft Security organization accelerates Microsoft’s mission and bold ambitions to ensure that our company and industry is securing digital technology platforms, devices, and clouds in our customers’ heterogeneous environments, as well as ensuring the security of our own internal estate. Our culture is centered on embracing a growth mindset, a theme of inspiring excellence, and encouraging teams and leaders to bring their best each day. In doing so, we create life-changing innovations that impact billions of lives around the world.

Purview Data security team is expanding into new horizons including data security for AI applications, transforming data security in agentic world. We are looking for a Principal Software Engineer to build innovations to provide best in class data protection for Microsoft customers by building high performance and reliable systems. Our mission is to help protect customers with truly innovative proactive protection, advise customers on emerging trends, and engage in valuable partnerships. Our team fosters an agile, inclusive development environment and supportive culture.

Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. As employees we come together with a growth mindset, innovate to empower others, and collaborate to realize our shared goals. Each day we build on our values of respect, integrity, and accountability to create a culture of inclusion where everyone can thrive at work and beyond.



Responsibilities
  • Leads efforts and discussions for the architecture of aspects of products/solutions that are high performant, reliable and efficient. Leads identification of dependencies and the development of design documents for a product, application, service, or platform 
  • Independently creates and mentors others for a clear and articulated plan for testing and assuring the quality of solutions, and defines success for outcomes of tests. Creates and applies metrics to drive the quality and stability of code, as well as appropriate coding patterns and best practices. 
  • Leads identification of internal tools and creation of new tools that will be useful for creating the product, determining if methods are still applicable for the current solution. 
  • Collaborate closely with engineers from different partner teams, Program Managers and other Security Engineering disciplines to build enterprise ready product that will be used by millions of users


Qualifications

Qualifications - Required:

  • Required/minimum qualifications Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.


Other Requirements

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

  • Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft background and Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Qualifications - Preferred:

  • Additional or preferred qualifications High scale microservices Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 10+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python
    • OR equivalent experience.
  • 3+ years of experience designing, building, and operating scalable, highly available cloud services or distributed systems on platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP, or comparable cloud environments, with production ownership and CI/CD pipeline integration.​
  • 3+ years of experience applying distributed systems concepts such as concurrency, conflict resolution, and consensus algorithms to build resilient and maintainable back-end architectures.​
  • 3+ years of experience building systems with emphasis on reliability, durability, and operational efficiency, including experience with live site operations, incident response, and performance optimization.​
  • 3+ years of experience programming in modern back-end languages such as C#, Java, Go, or Python.​
  • 3+ years of experience designing, developing, or maintaining secure software systems, with applied knowledge of authentication, data protection, access control, and secure coding practices

 

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Software Engineering IC5 - The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $139,900 - $274,800 per year. There is a different range applicable to specific work locations, within the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, and the base pay range for this role in those locations is USD $188,000 - $304,200 per year.

Certain roles may be eligible for benefits and other compensation. Find additional benefits and pay information here:
https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/us-corporate-pay


This position will be open for a minimum of 5 days, with applications accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled.




Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, immigration status, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran or military status, race, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local laws, regulations and ordinances. If you need assistance with religious accommodations and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application process, read more about requesting accommodations.

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